Dover-Sawyer

A planned rail-trail

Mileage Chart & Detailed Trail Information

The following railroad mileage chart also serves as a table of contents for the detailed rail-trail information and associated pictures. Each page begins with the historic name of the former railroad station, and continues with detailed information about the trail on either side of that railroad station, to a point roughly half-way to the next railroad station. The page then concludes with a set of icons representing the services and points of interest that are within a reasonable distance of the trail. 

Miles*

Station Name

Settlement

Municipality
9.62 Sawyer Dover Dover
10.48 Folsom Street Dover Dover
10.98 Dover Dover Dover

* = Railroad Miles from Portsmouth
Dark face = telegraph station in 1923

Mileage and Station Names from the Official List of Officers, Agents and Stations of the Boston & Maine Railroad, July 1,1923.

Newspaper articles about the Trail

Railroad Abandonment Summary

Item

From

To

Year

RR

Miles

365

Dover

Sawyer

1986

B&M

1.4

B&M = Boston & Maine Railroad
From the "Directory of Rail Abandonments 1848-1994" in the book Lost Railroads of New England, 2nd Ed. by Ronald Dale Karr, published by Branch Line Press in 1996.

Sign images are from the Manual of Traffic Signs by Richard C. Moeur.

Updated on March 01, 2001 by Kenyon F. Karl <[email protected]>.
  Unintentional errors are likely!

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